Are You Personally Prepared For a Natural Disaster?

On our little island we have meal size hopping furry creatures that taste delicious.

Whats more, there are thousands of them. I had better take some shooting and butchering lessons to be prepared.

 

Just make sure you get them before they look like this one, or you might find that *you* are the meal. Luckily I was inside and it couldn't get to me.

PDW

 

I'm guessing that a critter of that size you'd be best off with a 22250. very flat trajectory, neck shot. Get a nice scope and practice a couple times a week to really become proficient.

when your ready graduate to one of the large casing 7m riffles with a bull barrel. Ultra mag if you can find one. Same basic trajectory and will drop anything. You just gotta hit it right. But way to much gun for those little guys.

Winchester came out with a 7m ultra mag last fall and I'm just waiting to see if they fixed some of the issues they had with the former model before I pick up one. Its not cheap but its not bad either. Great ballistics and well worth owning. Go with the 6x24x40 scope and a bipod front end. From the prone position, you can't miss. I want one for elk, deer and antelope. Although I've dropped deer and speed goats with the 22250

Heart shot, lung shot, BS, go for the neck with a REM round, drops em instantly. No loss of edibles. Just remember to thank him for his place in the circle and being there when you needed him. Be respectful and you will be a successful next time out.

Dressing out starts with a good shot.

 

Do you really want to survive or is it just an excuse to get the gun out and shoot stuff. We are all doomed.

I suppose the gun shop will have been raided long ago so where you get bullets from I don't know. Ille just sneak up and use my blow pipe. Ille swop l you a leg for a gallon of deisel.

I don't think we are taking this serious or thinking about it.

 

Ill just find a deserted suppermarket and move in till it runs dry of stuff!!.

 

Great then ille have a packet of Choco chips after dinner biscuits please.

For that you can have a pound of deer liver and i'lle leave the fur on.

You see trade is easy --you don't need to run a round killing stuff you cant carry.

1000 rounds is 3 per day for a year. How much does a 1000 rounds weigh.

I think its becoming obvious the ******* are going to try to shoot themselves out of it but in actual fact would shoot themselves in the foot as we all eat dinner to the sounds of gun shot from the Septic camp till it all goes quiet,---we will listen for a while then laugh.

What is it with ******* and bloody guns.

 

Yup - that what I recommend you do as well.

Me, I'm doing some more research on kangaroo hunting

 

You have got to be joking.

Any time I want to shoot one of these, I'll use a 22LR with subsonics if it's close enough (like 10m from my kitchen window; that one was less than 5).

I pretty much gave up hunting back in 1996 but I have shot literally thousands of marsupials in my time. You guys get a deer season with what, 3 or 4 tags a season? I used to shoot more kangaroos than that a night just for dog food.

How about you stick to what you know about hunting in the USA and not bless us with your advice on how to hunt our game here in Australia?

PDW

 

Well, of course not. The thread degenerated early on, now it's just for taking the pizs.

I conducted a raid on the local supermarket today, now I have sufficient food to see me through any foreseeable emergency (*).

PDW

(* as long as it's over in 2 weeks because I'll have run out of red by then)

 

a 22 yikes, good for at best 100 yards and absolutely no stopping power. Yah maybe you'd better stick to Australia. Cause around here you'd be laughed right back to your hovel. In a pinch a rational person would want a long range riffle with good ballistics good stopping/dropping power and a good scope. Not everything is dumb enough to let you walk up to within a few feet, and if I saw some fool walking around with a 22 I'd probably want to bring it back for the kids in camp to play with ;-)

Frosty. If I remember 10,000 rounds is the survivalists favorite number for how many rounds to have on hand. Its basically a small pallet of boxes or about ten cans. Not that much but also not easy to tote around. Think of it kinda like the yacht design spiral, if you need more stuff, then you need more boat, as well as power and help operating it, in which case you need more stuff.

I'd say 2000 rounds is about as much as you could carry but even then you'd be struggling. Depends on the caliber and type.

oh and guns your most important tool, that and the ability to make fire. Three major things to survival, shelter, fire, food/water what order you tackle them in depends on the situation. A gun takes the guesswork out of food and brings your chances of survival up quite a bit. Shelter is as complex or simple as you need it to be. Fire is a lighter away, ( once again a small supply of lighters could potentially last a lifetime ) but a flint and some char cloth works almost as good and its lighter ( har har har ) So really water is the main thing as long as you've got a gun handy.

anyway the whole thing completely depends on what kinda disaster we're talking about.

Cheers
B

 

What's really unnerving is that a nuclear catastrophe would render all of our survival techniques useless.

 

We all fight for survival every day.
How many fail?- it's a tough world.
Is this the attraction to this sort of thread?
Simplicity of means as a replacement for what we all face?

"Give me a decent rifle and some piano wire and I will be the last man standing......."

Stand up and get to work- it's true today and will still be true in any doomsday scenario you can think up.

 

Naaa --its just testosterone over powering brain waves leaving some verbally impaired and making references to movies that they saw and impressed them as a kid.

Rambo is doing well and top of the list. Bruce willis in' last man standing' keeps getting mentioned and getting mixed in with 'Bambi' and Jungle book.

 

there has been a survivalist fruit loop calling up our talk back radio shows for the last week telling everyone we are about to die because he read on the net that an uncontrollable virus escaped form a lab in california last week. gotta believe the internet.

 

Dont you just love those 50 year olds walking about with pony tails and camouflage pants and the wallet held by a chain.

It makes me cringe, usually unemployed driving a matt black Transam.

LOOSER ALARM.